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Originally Posted by Quixote
Canadian cities don't really have streetcar suburbs.
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Not sure what you mean. The Oakwood and Vaughan Road-St. Clair area is streetcar suburb type development (and there's even streetcars running on St. Clair Avenue!). Unless you mean incorporated suburbs with that typology and not the urban form.
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Those differences aside, do Torontonians view Mississauga, Brampton, Richmond Hill, Vaughan, and Markham as "the suburbs"? Or is it more like LA where there's less of a cultural distinction between city proper and suburb? .
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Absolutely they do. Or they're referred to as "905ers" which essentially means the same thing. While it's true that the urban form on the outer edges of Toronto isn't all that different than neighboring parts of 905, all the urban parts are in the city of Toronto. There's no patchwork, where you have some independent municipalities that are more urban than much of the city proper, like in L.A.